The Bastard (Shaw Brothers)
From The Grindhouse Cinema Database
Main Details
- Released in 1973
- Color
- Aspect Ratio: (2.35:1)
- Distributed Shaw Brothers
- Directed by Yuen Chor
- Written by Kang Chien Chiu
- Starring: Hei Chan, Lau Chan, Shen Chan, Lei Cheng, Tsan Kang Chen, Ling Chiang, Lin Chiao, Miao Ching, Yuet Sang Chin, Yun Kin Chow, Hua Chung, Pak-Kwong Ho, Tan Lau, Lily Li, Peng-fei Li, Han Lo, Ti Lu, Mars, Sha-fei Ouyang, Di Tang, Choh Lam Tsang, Ching-Ho Wong, Chi Chin Wu, Chih-Ching Yang, Cheung-Yan Yuen, Shun-Yee Yuen, Woo-ping Yuen
Also Known As
- Nobody's Son
- Xiao za zhong
Synopsis
The incomparable Lily Li was considered an actress with an attitude, which was perfect for her becoming a bad-girl fighter. In "The Bastard", she plays a beggar girl that becomes a target for evil men plotting to make "The Bastard" a scapegoat for murder because he happens to like the son of a jailed dignitary's son accused of murder. "The Bastard" is actually a new take on an old Western classic, Alexandre Dumas' "Man In The Iron Mask" where epee and foil fencing is replaced with tornadoes of hands and feet. (IVL)